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Snap out of it (lemmy.zip)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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How do you guys get software that is not in your distribution's repositories?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

cant we just have .deb?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

On arch?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

If you look at some aur packages, it's probably deb...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

we got tar.zst

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And windows has .zip? That's not the same...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

i mean arch linux deb version is tar.zst no joke

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I was going be a smart ass and make the "I use Arch joke"... But if you can use .debs on Arch, that's kind of neat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

The issue is with pushing updates. Eget is nice, but it doesn't push updates.